In this lesson, students will be able to apply what they already know about their own family experiences and those they've observed to practice text-to-self, text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

Have You Seen My Duckling? is a very simple book that relies heavily on the illustrations to move readers through the story. This makes it a good introductory lesson for guiding beginner readers through oral retelling and summarizing.

The story in Have You Seen My Duckling? is driven primarily by its illustrations. This is a good opportunity to introduce students to the text structure of picture books. This lesson plan is also useful for introducing students to problem and solution as well as comparing and contrasting text structures.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how beginning consonants are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with consonants.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Have You Seen My Duckling? highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Have You Seen My Duckling?

Read Have You Seen My Duckling? then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Have You Seen My Duckling?. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Have You Seen My Duckling? includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.